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print-helper

Typically colour rendering differs between devices (monitors, printers). Aside of calibrating the devices to a defined state colour-profiles are used to describe the behaviour of the output-devices. Gimp realises colour-management by using a working-colour-space, a monitor-colour-space to get a good vision on a monitor and a printer-colour-space to be able to render print-previews.

With the availability of good photo-printers there is a need to include them into the colour-management chain by:

keeping the printer in a controlled state (for example HP 9180 and HP 8850 can calibrate themselves, calibrate always with the same paper).

get a colour-profile (or make it) for each paper-type. Leave the colour-relevant settings of your printer-driver untouched after calibration and profiling.

convert the image from the working-colour-space to the printer-colour-space and

do eventually some enhancements (rotation, scaling, sharpening) and at last

print it.

This script assist for the steps 3 to 5. Colour-Management is only supported for RGB-Images.

Comments

I have modified the script a little bit. It works now also on Windows with GIMP 3.6.8. I also changed the location of the icc profiles to the default color directory and moved the script to the printing section. It works now great, until Gimp gets its own colormanagement like photoshop this script is very useful.